CORRECTION - January / February Newsletter

NEXT AAG MEETING: Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm at Pickhams.AGM Date to be confirmed, probably either 22nd or 29th February. Please check the website or Arlington Village Hall noticeboard for details and agenda.

All welcome - no need to come every week. Bring your own materials /
equipment. You can carry on with your own projects or take up the
'suggested challenge' each week as you wish!

5th January - Shiny and New12 January - No theme19 January - NO MEETING

26 January - All things Scottish.2 February - A Touch of Frost. 1940 - David Jason, English actor9 February - Flight. 1963 - 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet. Artist of the month.16 February - Bring in an object to inspire.23 February - Puppets. 1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released1st March - Competition: Pigs. National Pig day in United States.8th March - Workshop with Lindy Dunbar. Life drawing.

"Artist of the Month"

We
get to see what members work on at the Thursday Art Evenings and at
exhibitions, but it is great to see all the other work they do and have
done in the past.

Nov - Camilla Pennant
Camilla
brought in a selection of her works which included some paintings done
on a recent residential art course (this example was painted with hands
and fingers) and some examples of work done at Wilmington Art Group.

Competitions:

Monthly Theme

Each week we have a suggested theme
and every so often we make one a competition. Anyone who attends that
session can enter (or choose not to!) - there is a prize and the winning
entry will be featured in the next newsletter. At our session on 1st
March the theme will be Pigs. you can start your work in advance but it
should be worked on and finished during the session. Everyone votes for
their favourite at the end of the session.

Paint Me a Bluebell

You can interpret the
title as you like. Your entry can be painted or drawn in any medium and
to any size but we need a 5 x 7" PHOTOGRAPH of your work to judge, not
the original work.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 31st March 2012

All photographs will be displayed throughout the opening of the 2012 Arlington Bluebell Walk (opening dates to be confirmed on www.bluebellwalk.co.uk)
and visitors will be asked to vote for the winners in each category.
The ORIGINALS of all the winning entries will then be displayed during
the Hailsham Arts Festival between 8th - 19th September 2012 (venue and
exact exhibition date TBC).

Categories:

Children's winner 2011

A - Under 8's (50p per entry),

B - 8 to 16 years (50p per entry)

C - 65 and over (£1 per entry),

D - Amateur (£1 per entry),

E - Professional (£2 per entry)

Please send you photographs (size approximately 5 x 7") with NO name on
the front, to the address below. Mark your name, address, telephone,
email and category entered on the BACK of the photograph and send with
the appropriate fee for the category. Unlimited number of entries.
Cheques payable to ARLINGTON ARTS GROUP. If you would rather, you can
deliver entries in person to Arlington Village Hall on a Thursday
evening between 7 and 9pm by prior arrangement.

We
can not return photographs. It is a condition of entry that your
original work is available to display between 8th ad 19th September
2012 in the event of you being a winner. Prizes for the winner in each
category of either Art materials or vouchers will be presented at the
exhibition of the winning entries where photographs will be taken of all
winners with their work.

It is a condition of entry that you consent to images of your work
being used on the Bluebell Walk website and printed literature where
this relates to the Art Competition and on the Arlington Arts Group
website and

to
promote future competitions run by the Arlington Arts Group and
published in the Arlington Arts Group Newsletter. All entries must be
photographs of your own work which must be original, not copies of the
work of other artists or photographers.

There will be a changeover of artists displaying work in the empty shop windows in Hailsham High Street on 29th January.

This is part of the Hailsham Town Council's initiative for High Street
Revitalisation in conjunction with the empty shop owners and the
letting agents (Ross and Co) which has greatly helped to improve the
appearance of the High Street, and several of the units have now been
let. The scheme has received some press attention and may well be a
blueprint for other councils.

This is not a commercial venture -
it is an opportunity for artists to show work and help the appearance
of the High Street. Pictures in the windows are not priced but Gallery
North will handle all enquiries about work if the artists have given
them details. There is no commission taken on any sales but pictures
have to remain in the windows once sold until the end of the
exhibition.

It looks like we have only 3 units available to us
at the time of writing and we have 3 artists lined up, but please do
get in touch if you are interested in showing work for approximately 8
weeks as more empty units may become available. You would need to
provide your own stands / easels, display your own work, insure your
work for the exhibition duration, and collect your work when asked -
if the shops are let during the exhibition time, you will be asked
to remove your work, possibly at short notice.

If interested please email asap
or call Josie at Hailsham Creative on 01323 840 048 or leave a
message for Jenny at Gallery North (70 High St, Hailsham) on 01323 846
938.

Arlington Art Show 2012

This is scheduled to be in the Village Hall on the May Day
Bank Holiday weekend, Sat, Sun and probably Monday (TBC). The format
will be much the same as our last year's summer show and submission
forms will be available on the website soon. If you would like a form
posted to you please SEND A SAE to the address below marked Arlington
Art Show 2012. We want everyone who wants to show their work to have
the opportunity so we do not have a selection committee, but we are
always oversubscribed so space is allocated on a first come first
served basis. We will invite a few crafts people who have had
stalls with us before but will not be advertising craft pitches for
sale this year.

Other events this year will include the
exhibition of the winning entries in the Bluebell competition during
the Hailsham Arts Festival in September. We will discuss this at the
meeting on 1st Feb as we may decide to extend the exhibition to other
artists and perhaps have a couple of 'fringe' festival events in the
village, such as artists' open studios. Please let us know if you have
any suggestions or ideas.

WANTED

Newsletter secretary

The Newsletters are set up and printed every 2 months (that's just 6 a year) and posted or emailed to all AAG members.
[You may have noticed a lack of Newsletter in December - it was a quiet
month for the group so there was not much to report. I also simply ran
out of time to produce one]If you are able to collate
information and set it up on a computer, I can arrange the printing.
This email version if very easy to edit once the material is all ready.
Full training will be given!

Please do consider taking on this role - ask for more details - and let one of us know before the next meeting.Thank you!

Subscriptions are due on 1st Feb. You can choose £6 Email membership
(for those happy to be contacted by email or to view the newsletters
online or on the noticeboard at Arlington Village Hall), or £9.50
postal membership (to have newsletters posted to you every other
month).

Membership automatically entitles you to

reduced exhibitor rates at AAG exhibitions and at many events organised by the group,

your card will get you a 10% discount at Pictures and Frames of Horam.

Members can also order items from the SAA at SAA members prices when ordering through the group.

Members are covered under the AAG Group Public Liability Insurance at AAG events.

Details
of forthcoming AAG Exhibitions will be listed in the Newsletters - if
you would like to participate please either pick up application forms
from Arlington Village Hall, download an application form from the
website or send an SAE for a form to be posted to you.

Name

Address

Postcode

Email address

Telephone

Mobile

Please indicate if you are applying for Email (£6) or Postal (£9.50) membership E / P

Amount enclosed £ Cheques payable to Arlington Art Group

I am happy for Arlington Arts Group to retain and process my data for the purpose of Arlington Arts Group events and activites.